Fixture support and bracket.



W. R. BLAIN.

FlXTURE SUPPORT AND, BRACKET; APPLIATION FILED MAR. 5. !915.

l fi Patented July 27, 1915.

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WILSON E, BLAIN, OF ALBANY, OREGON,

FIXTUBE SUPPORT AND BRACKET.

Specificaton of Letters Patent.

Patentea aui at, asia.

Application filed March 5, 1915. Serial Ne. 12,448.

To all 'w kom it may concem:

Be it known that I, WILSON R. BLAIN, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Albany, in the county of Linnand State of Oregon, have invente'd new and useful Improvements inFixture Supports and Brackets, of which the following is a specication.`

This invention relates to a bracket for supporting electric lamps orother electrcal fixtures, and one of its objects is to provide a bracketof* simple and inexpensive construction whereby the lamp or otherfixture may be supported, raised and lowered as required, and alsoadjusted to different posltons in a room or apartment.

A further, object of the invention is to provide a bracket embodyingmeans for 'guiding and holding the electrc conductng cord or wire, sothat the same may' be adjusted to raise and lower the fixture asrequired' and .maintain the same in adjusted position.

The invention consists of the features of const'ru'ction, combinationand arrangement of parts herein fully described and claimed, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing in whch F igure 1 is a Viewshowing the device as used as a. lamp fixture and applied to a ceilingto adjustably support the lamp withina roomor apartment. Fig. 2 is adetal section on the line 2- -2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary planview of the suspending arm showing the spring guiding and clamping jawsthereon.

In carrying my invention into practice, I provide a wall or ceilingplatel, which may be suitablysecured in position upon the wall orceiling, and which is provided with a projecting tubular stern 2 for thepassage of the electric conducting cord or wire 3, leading through thewall or ceiling from a suitable source of current supply. A hanger arm 4is pivotally mounted at one end, as indicated at 5, upon the stern 2, toswing in a horizontal plane, and said arm is preferably outwardly anddownwardly curved from its pivotal support on a desired arc, the degreeof curvature of the arm 4, which may vary under difl'erent conditions,serving to regulate or control the elevation of the bracket within theroom `or apartment in which it is located.

Hinged at one end to the free end of the hanger arm 4, as indicated at6, is a connecting arm 7,'which inclines outwardly and downwardly fromsaid hanger arm and has its opposite end 8 bent on a downward curve andarranged to support a suspending arm '9 pivotally mounted at one end, asat 10,

upon the end 8 of the arm 7 to swin ina horizontal plane, the arm 9being o r relatively greater length than the arm 7, so that when therespective arms are arranged in alinement the free end of thearm 9 willeX- tend outwardly beyond the free end of the arm 4, thus permitting ofcertain adjustments of the arms with relation to and withoutinterference from each other.

It will be evident from the foregoing description that the arms 4, 7 and9 are adjustable to different relative angles and to different positionsto lengthen or Shorten the bracket as a whole, thus allowing the freeend of the suspending arm 9 to be disposed to support the lamp or otherfixture at any point within the room or apartment in which the device isarranged for use.

The arms 4, 7 and 9 are provided with guiding and clamping members 11,arranged at inter-Vals along the same, and each consisting of a pair ofspring jaws 12 having their free ends arranged to form the guide space13 and their inner portions arranged to form approximating or abuttingclamping surfaces 14. These guiding and clamping devices are adapted forcoperation with the cord or conducting wire 3, which is threadedtherethrough along the respective bracket arms, a portion of the cord orwire being, however, arranged in the form of a slack bight or loop 15.The guiding and 'clamping members of the arm 1- project downwardly,while the guiding and clamping members of the arms 7 and 9 projectupwardly, -as shown; The free end of the cord supports the lamp or otherfixture 16 and clepends at the end of the arm 9 between a pair ofguiding and clamping jaws 17 which' have beveled ends to form a fiaringspace or entrance 18 and clamping surfaces 19 between which clampingsurfaces the cord normally extends. In practice, the cord may be grippedbetween the faces 7 of the jaws 7 to support the fiXture 16 at the'desired elevation, and at all times the cord is arranged to'extendbetween said faces so that said jaws 17 will establish a properresistance to the movement of the cord. The cord also extends eitherloosely through the spaces between the jaws 12 of the guding andclamping members 11 or may be drawn down between the clamping surfaces14: of said jaws, thus enabling the cord to be ad usted with ease andconvenience and grippecl or held upon the braoket arms with greater orless force, according to the weight of the object which is to beSuspended, so that the depending end of the cord will support thefixture or object at any desired elevation. The slack portion 15 of thecord permits adjustment of the fixture as to elevation to acomparatively wide degree, and this extent of adjustment may be exceededby dsconnecting the cord from the guiding and clamping members of eitheror both of the arms 4 and 7 as will be readily understood. It will beevident, however, that these guiding and clamping members, in which thecord may be gripped as tightly as desired, will normally hold the cordwhile permittng it to be run out or extended when pulled with thedesired force, so that the fixture may be raised and lowered with easeand convenience. The jointed arms of the bracket furthermore permit thefixture to be adjustedto any point horizontally in a room or apartmentor closet passageway communicating with said apartment, the advantagesof which will be evident.

I claim 2- 1. A fixture suspending device comprising a wall or ceilingbracket, a longitudinally curved hanger arm pivotally mountediupon saidbracket to swing in a horizontal plane, an inclined connecting armpivoted at one end to the lower end of the hanger arm and having itsopposite end downwardly curved, a suspending arm pivotally mounted uponthe downwardly curved end of the connecting arm, guiding and grippingmembers upon said arms, and a conducting and fixture supporting cordthreaded through and adjustable in said guiding and gripping men-- bers.

2. A fixture suspending device comprising a Wall or ceiling bracket, alongitudinally curved hanger-arm pivotally mounted upon said bracket toSwing in a horizontal plane, an inclined connecting arm pivoted at oneend to the lower end of the hanger arm and having its opposit-e enddownwardly curved, a suspending arm pvotally mounted upon the downwardlycurved end of the con nectng arm, guicling and gripping members upon therespective arms, each consst'ng of a pair of spring jaws formng aguiding portion and clamping surfaces, a pair of guiding and grippingjaws upon the free end of the suspendng arm, and a conducting corclextending through the bracket and also through said guding andconducting nembers along said arms and depending from the free end ofthe suspending arm, said cord having a slack portion at the anglc ofinterseetion of the hanger and connectng arms.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

wILsoN n. BLIN.

Witnesses:

W. W. FRANCIS, W. L. MARKS.

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